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 246 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vu. mae. 29.1913. Mr. C. C. Osbobne, who contributed the note to ' N. & Q.,' considers that the whole story " smacks strongly of Yankee imagination." Twenty years after Me. Osborne's note Mr. C. Harold McChesney states (10 S. iii. 204) that the New Shakespeareana for January, 1905, under the heading ' An American Shakespeare Hoax,' " confirms completely Mr. Osborne's suspicion." An editorial note appended to Mr. McChesney's article closes with the words :— "No doubt this mythical pall-bearer will in due course again go the round of the press ; but readers of ' N. k Q.,' at least, will not be troubled at his resurrection." The editorial forecast was right. Hoaxes die a hard death, and the whole story reappears in Le Menestrel of 4 January of the present year. J. S. Shedlock. [Twenty years before The Philadelphia Timet and other American papers gave centennial pro- minence to the Edward Heldon myth attention had been directed to this imaginary pall-bearer in ' N. 4. Q.,' for at 3 S. ii. 188 (6 Sept., 1862) Este (the late Samuel Timmins of Birmingham) showed by an extract that his supposed epitaph was then appearing in the Canadian press. As our French musical contemporary has revived the story, it is advisable for ' N. & Q.' to point out once more that it is only a fabrication.] " Tela prjevisa minus nocent."—To the various forms of the proverb given at 11 S. i. 50, 113, 155, 216, may be added the following:— Et praeuisa minus tela nocere solent. This is emoted by Cardan, not very far from the beginning of his ' De Libris Propriis eorumque Usu Liber Recognitus,' torn. i. p. 98, col. 2, of Spon's edition of his ' Opera Omnia.' This form of the ' De Libris Propriis' must bo distinguished from the ' De Libris Propriis, eorumque Ordine, et Usu,' &c, and the ' Libellus de Libris Propriis, cui titulus est, Ephemerus,' which come earlier in the samo volume of Cardan's ' Opera Omnia.' Edward Bensly, William of Worcester's ' Itinerary.' —In common with many other students of local topography, I think it is time that a now edition—translated, annotated, and fully odited—of this famous ' Itinerary ' was published. No issue of it has, I believe, appearod since Nasmith's volume in 1778, and that work is rarely, if ever, found in second-hand catalogues. The ' Itinerary ' should appear in translated form, for many reasons unnecessary to specify here. Miss Toulmin Smith's fine edition of John Loland's work calls for a companion volume. J. Hambley Rowe, M.B. Churchyard Inscriptions. (See 11 S. vii. 110, and references there given.)—The interest in churchyard inscriptions seems to increase. It may, therefore, interest your readers to know that all monuments up to the year 1812 have been copied in the following churchyards by me :— Wales.—Llanbadarn, Penarth, Cogan St. Peter, Barry, Llandock, St. Athans, Gileston. Devon.—Teignmouth. Sussex.—Buxted and Uckfield. Oxfordshire.—Woodford. Kent.—Rochester, St. Nicholas. Warwickshire.—Alcester, Alveston, Ans- ley, Arrow, Astley, Aston Cantlow, Ather- stone-upon-Stour, Avon Dassett, Baddesley Clinton, Barcheston, Barford, Barton-on-the- Heath. Bearley, Beaudesort, Bedworth, Bid- ford, Billesley, Binton, Brailes, Budbroke, Bulkington, Burmington, Burton Dassett, Butlers Marston, Chadsunt, Charlecote, Cherington, Chesterton, Chilvers Coton, Claverdon, Combroke, Compton Parva, Compton Longa, Compton Verney, Compton Winyates, Corley, Congleton, Ettington, Exhall, Farnborough, Fenny Compton, Gay- don, Great Alne, Halford, Hampton Lucy, Haseley, Haselor, Hatton, Henley-in-Arden, Honiley, Honington, Idlicote, Ilmington, Kineton, Kinwarton, Leamington, Light - home, Loxley, Moreton Morell, Morton Bagot, Newbold Pacy, Norton Lindsay, Nuneaton, Oxhill, Pillerton Hersey, Pillerton Priors, Preston Bagot, Radway, Ratley, Salford Priors, Sherbourne, Shilton, Shots- well, Snitterfield, Spernall, Stratford-upon- Avon, Stretton - on - Fosse, Sutton - under - Brailes, Tysoe, Warmington, Warwick (St. Mary), Warwick (St. Nicholas), Wasperton, Weethloy, Wellesbourne, Whatcot, Which- ford, Wixford, Wolford, and Wootten Wawen. The above copies are preserved in the Memorial Theatre Library, Stratford- upon-Avon. Gloucestershire. — Marston Sicca, Peb- vvorth, Dorsington, Welford-on-Avon, Wes- ton-on-Avon, Clifford Chambers, Preston- on-Stour, Quinton, Mickleton, Aston Sub- edge, Weston Subedge, Saintbury, Willersey, and Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Also in the Memorial Theatre Library. Worcestershire.—Abbots Morton, Arley, Alderminster, Arley King's, Badsey, Block- ley (part only), Bretforton, Broadway, Church Honeybourne, Church Lench, Churchill, Cleevo Prior, Cropthorne, Dowles, Elmley Castle, Evesham (All Saints'), Eves- ham (St. Lawrence), Fladbury, South Little- ton, North Littleton, Norton-by-Kempsey, Offenham, Oldberrow, Overbury, Pershore